Bushing.



PATBNTED APR. 2, 1907.

c. A. BRINLEY.

I BUSHING.

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UNITED SAIES PATEI OFFIQ.

CHARLES A. BRINLEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGN OR TO THE AMERICAN PULLEY COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVA- NIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

BUSHING.

No. 849,200. Specification oi Letters Patent.

Application filed September 10,1904. Serial No. 223,963.

Patented April 2, 1907.

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BRINLEY, of- Philadelphia, inthe State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bushings, whereof the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My improvements relate particularly to split or longitudinally-divided bushings for bearings for shafting, wheel-axles, &c.; and it is the object of my invention to provide such a bushing of wrought and pressed metal members which may be constructed at less cost than the solid cast-metal bushings heretofore employed.

As hereinafter described, my invention comprises a half-bushing formed of a semicylindric pressed sheet-metal shell having 3. In a bushing, the combination with a flanges extending diametrically outward at semicylindric metal shell having diametricthe edges thereof and semicircular ribs of ally opposite flanges provided with recesses; wrought metal fitted to said semicylindric of a semicircular rib, of rectangular crossshell and having their ends engaged with said section, fitted to the periphery of said shell flanges. and having its ends secured in said recesses,

My improvements comprise the various substantially as set forth. novel features of construction and arrange- 4. In a bushing, the combination with a ment hereinafter more definitely specified. semicylindric iron shell having diametrically In the drawings, Figure I is a side elevaopposite flanges provided with recesses; of a tion of a half or semicylindric bushing emsemicircular wrought-iron rib, fitted to the bodying my improvements. Fig. II is a cenperiphery of said shell and having its ends tral longitudinal sectional view of said bushsecured in said recesses, substantially as set ing, taken on the line II II in Fig. III. Fig. forth.

III is a transverse sectional view taken on 5. In a bushing, the combination with a the line III III in Figs. I and II. cylindriform metal shell having an exterior In said figures the half-bushing comprises flange provided with a recess; of a rib fitted a semicylindric shell 1, of pressed metal, to the periphery of said shell and having its having diametrically opposite lateral flanges end secured in said recess, substantially as 2. Said bushing is provided with three set forth. semicircular spacing-ribs 4, fitted to the pe- In testimony whereof I have hereunto riphery of said shell 1 and having their ends signed my name, at Philadelphia, Pennsylentered in recesses 5 in said flanges 2. I find vania, this 9th day of September, 1904. it convenient to form said ribs 4 of bars which CHARLES A. BRINLEY. are rectangular in cross-section and to secure I/Vitnesses: them in rigid relation with said shell 1 by RUssELL H. BOWEN, undercutting said flange-recesses 5 and up- ARTHUR E. PAIGE.

setting the metal of said ribs therein, as indicated in Figs. I and II; but said ribs may be otherwise shaped and secured.

I claim 1. In a bushing, the combination with a semicylindric metal shell having diametrically opposite flanges, provided with recesses; of a semicircular ri fitted to the periphery of said shell and having its ends secured in said recesses, substantially as set forth.

2. In a bushing, the combination with a semicylindric metal shell having diametrically opposite flanges provided with undercut recesses; of-a semicircular rib, fitted to the periphery of said shell and having its ends upset in said recesses, substantially as set forth. 

